Slaventus86 wrote:

Not sure if it is retro, but it is not modern though (2009-2010). After years of searching I've finally found it: […]
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Not sure if it is retro, but it is not modern though (2009-2010). After years of searching I've finally found it:

Intel Larrabee!

This is Intel LRB1 "Aubrey Isle" - Knights Ferry card with 2 GB RAM and 32 cores (probably). Will test it tomorrow.

x86 GPU. Theoretically these have the ability to adapt to new standard so in theory with a team of developers creating new drives and firmware it could support the latest shader model ETC. Unfortunately they scrapped the cards as (presumably) performance ended up being far below par.

Those were neat. I wish they never gave up one them.

Anyway I got another ls120 drive and a 19.2gb bigfoot TS Hdd.

Tetrium wrote:

I have seen those Alliance Semiconductor PCI graphics cards in the past,basically noone would know what these were and they didn't seem very special back then. I might have one stored away, but I'm not even sure I took the ones I found. It probably has something like 1MB or 2MB of memory.

Looks like the card has MPEG-1 video acceleration:

http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/news/item … -promotion-3210

Slaventus86 wrote:

Not sure if it is retro, but it is not modern though (2009-2010). After years of searching I've finally found it:

Intel Larrabee!

This is Intel LRB1 "Aubrey Isle" - Knights Ferry card with 2 GB RAM and 32 cores (probably). Will test it tomorrow.

I have never seen an engineering sample of a Larrabee, pretty impressive stuff! Do you have drivers for it?

Please let us know what it can do, I'm really curious, I remember reading all about Larrabee back in 2008-2009 and being quite perplexed when they cancelled it. I really thought Intel would become a big contender at the time.

Tetrium wrote:

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Cyrix200+ wrote:

Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today:
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That's a very nice find!

Your AT motherboard is probably some Intel Batman board, judging from the layout of the PCI and ISA slots. Mine didn't have any cache on the motherboard though. The case had me presume the contents had a good chance to contain 486 stuff, but this is close to it (came very quickly after s4). This may be s5 instead of s7.

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It is exactly the same type of board I got 2 years ago 😁 Identify this Socket 5 board (Intel?) So now I have two of them with bad, soldered on Dallas RTC's 🙁

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

That's a very nice find! […]
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Cyrix200+ wrote:

Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today:
-snip-

That's a very nice find!

Your AT motherboard is probably some Intel Batman board, judging from the layout of the PCI and ISA slots. Mine didn't have any cache on the motherboard though. The case had me presume the contents had a good chance to contain 486 stuff, but this is close to it (came very quickly after s4). This may be s5 instead of s7.

<snip>

It is exactly the same type of board I got 2 years ago 😁 Identify this Socket 5 board (Intel?) So now I have two of them with bad, soldered on Dallas RTC's 🙁

Interesting, I thought Batman was Socket 4 only. My Dell Dimension XPS P60 board layout looks very much like @Cyrix200+, but it is a socket 4 and chipset is 430LX.

Slaventus86 wrote:

This is a prototype card, such cards were send to some chosen developers. This project was later transformed into Xeon Phi cards, though LRB2, or Knights Corner, still does have texture units, but the video output connectors were missing similar to some nVidia Tesla cards.

I remember reading comments that a dev who had one of these from back in the day complaining about the drivers, it would run some games but the drivers practically killed the project. I wish that Intel had gone through with it and maybe it could have had a decent shot at least as a multi use card.

Just got some new motherboards:

2x P5A-B
Gigabyte GA-5AX v 4.1 (obsługuje plusy)
Gigabyte GA-586STX 2 na SIS (bardzo się z niej cieszę)
MSI MS5169 v 4.0

Does this MSI works with K6 plus CPU's?

Batyra wrote:

Just got some new motherboards: […]
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Just got some new motherboards:

2x P5A-B
Gigabyte GA-5AX v 4.1 (obsługuje plusy)
Gigabyte GA-586STX 2 na SIS (bardzo się z niej cieszę)
MSI MS5169 v 4.0

Does this MSI works with K6 plus CPU's?

Nice boards! according to this http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm the MSI should work with k6+ cpu's.

Got this with my most recent purchase. Can anybody identify it? I've never heard of a dual VGA ISA card before. Model number doesn't find anything at all.

xplus93 wrote:

Got this with my most recent purchase. Can anybody identify it? I've never heard of a dual VGA ISA card before. Model number doesn't find anything at all.

Judging by its looks it's just two cirrus logic cards on one pcb. Should be cool to try out doom on it.

meljor wrote:

Batyra wrote:

Just got some new motherboards: […]
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Just got some new motherboards:

2x P5A-B
Gigabyte GA-5AX v 4.1 (obsługuje plusy)
Gigabyte GA-586STX 2 na SIS (bardzo się z niej cieszę)
MSI MS5169 v 4.0

Does this MSI works with K6 plus CPU's?

Nice boards! according to this http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm the MSI should work with k6+ cpu's.

Thanks! This is the website I was looking for.

dexvx wrote:

Interesting, I thought Batman was Socket 4 only. My Dell Dimension XPS P60 board layout looks very much like @Cyrix200+, but it […]
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Cyrix200+ wrote:

Sooooooo I had some extreme luck on Marktplaats.nl yesterday. I bought two old systems and I picked them up today:
-snip-

Tetrium wrote:

That's a very nice find!

Your AT motherboard is probably some Intel Batman board, judging from the layout of the PCI and ISA slots. Mine didn't have any cache on the motherboard though. The case had me presume the contents had a good chance to contain 486 stuff, but this is close to it (came very quickly after s4). This may be s5 instead of s7.

<snip>

Cyrix200+ wrote:

It is exactly the same type of board I got 2 years ago 😁 Identify this Socket 5 board (Intel?) So now I have two of them with bad, soldered on Dallas RTC's 🙁

Interesting, I thought Batman was Socket 4 only. My Dell Dimension XPS P60 board layout looks very much like @Cyrix200+, but it is a socket 4 and chipset is 430LX.

I think you are correct. It being an Intel made socket 5 board related to Intel's "Batman" (which was socket 4 (I know cause I have 2 of those)) was basically an educated guess based on the pics I saw. In the thread Cyrix200+ dug up, it's stated it's a Plato board.
My apologies for sounding confusing.

xplus93 wrote:

Got this with my most recent purchase. Can anybody identify it? I've never heard of a dual VGA ISA card before. Model number doesn't find anything at all.

It's just a standard dual-head VGA card. They're not that uncommon and were mass produced a lot. They're mainly for professional people as these cards were the only way to have "Extended desktop" of two monitors in windows originally. Later cards like Radeon and GeForce had it built in and supported it via drivers even in Win98se. I've used 2 x 1080p screens in extended desktop before with a 6800 ultra in Win98se.

Some AGP cards could do this too. Usually most of the dual-head GPU's were from Matrox though, they were sort of famous for it, so it is kind of rare to see one that's not Matrox.

Got an interesting pickup today.

Nvidia review sample GeForce FX5800 Ultra (the original leaf blower). Came in the tin can thing. Looks almost unused, virtually no dust in the blower compartment. Put it in the system, and can confirm it sounds really loud. Even on idle, its a high pitched hum, similar but louder than my regular Asus FX5800. Ran the gamut of 3DMark tests on it and pretty flawless, except some hiccups in 3DMark 2000 for whatever reason. Performance on slightly better than my Quadro FX 3000 (FX 5900).

Edit: Seems to be a discrepancy between GPU-Z and wikipedia. GPU-Z says fill rate is 2.0 GT/s, but wikipedia says it should be 4.0 GT/s.

dexvx wrote:

http://i.imgur.com/X6iyheq.jpg […]
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Is that UV reative plastic? I bet it looks sweet in a case with lights.

xplus93 wrote:

Is that UV reative plastic? I bet it looks sweet in a case with lights.

No idea (I don't have any UV case lights anymore, unfortunately... wow that brings back memories). I remember when the FX5800 Ultra reviews came out, the most distinctive thing I remembered was the neon green leaf blower. I think in many ways, this card was a harbinger of things to come. More external power to the video card (although 9700 used a Berg), double slot coolers, and in general more thought given to video card cooling. No longer will just a dinky metal cooler be sufficient.

Let me know when you won't to get rid of that card

Pick these up at a e-waste recycling place today.

Matrox Hiper-VGA with a Matrox Marvel/B (MM/LC). From what little info that I could find, the Hiper-VGA board is a 1mb vga card and the Marvel/B (MM/LC) is a video/sound board that supported XVGA. They both have the standard 15-pin vga connector but the Marvel/B also has a 25-pin connector.

And I also picked up this NEC Disk Drive...

Weighing in around 40 lbs. and only able to store 167mb of data, this SMD drive will crush any puny little girly man 3.5" drive that gets in it's way! 🤣

Jade Falcon wrote:

Let me know when you won't to get rid of that card

I'm surprised you who has owned everything from a GF256 to a V6 6k doesn't already have one. I knew they were rare but I didn't think they were that rare.